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ISPR dismisses Indian army chief's statement to undertake action across LoC as 'routine rhetoric'
2020-01-12
Pakistani response to this story from yesterday.
[DAWN] India's new army chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane on Saturday said that the Indian army will move to claim Azad Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(AJK) if it is given orders in this regard by the parliament, Indian media reported.

His statement was dismissed by the Pakistain Army's media wing as "routine rhetoric for domestic audiences to get out of ongoing internal turmoil".

"Pakistain Armed Forces are fully prepared to respond to any act of Indian aggression," a tweet by the Inter-Services Public Relations director general said.


Speaking to media in New Delhi, Naravane claimed that a parliamentary resolution stated that the "entire erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir" ‐ a reference to the region including AJK ‐ is part of India.

" [...] there is a parliamentary resolution from several years ago about this that the entire erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India," he said, according to Hindustan Times.
Related:
Manoj Mukund Naravane: 2020-01-11 Indian Forces Ready to Take back POK, Standing By for Executive Nod
Manoj Mukund Naravane: 2020-01-05 Peace returning to Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370: Army chief
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